Xavier Bonilla

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On February 13, 2015, Ecuador's media oversight commission, the Superintendency of Information and Communication (SUPERCOM), ordered the Guayaquil-based daily El Universo to publish an apology in connection with a cartoon drawn by Xavier Bonilla, a cartoonist known by his penname Bonil, which was published on August 5, 2014, according to news reports.

Called to testify before a government media oversight commission, editorial cartoonist Xavier Bonilla--known by his penname Bonil--showed up with a pair of four-foot-long mock pencils. But rather than having a small eraser on the tip, one of Bonil's giant pencils was nearly all eraser.

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa generated little actual news during a two-day trip to Chile last month. So Ecuador's four main newspapers did the obvious: They published short wire service dispatches about his visit.

Bogotá, February 3, 2014- The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemns the decision by Ecuador's media oversight agency on Friday
to use the country's communications law to sanction the leading local daily El Universo over a critical cartoon. The agency fined the daily and
demanded that the cartoonist "correct" the cartoon within 72 hours, according
to news reports.